COVID Is Not the Threat
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-24
Covid is a real virus. It is a threat to a small minority of the population–primarily people with poor immune systems and comorbidities. | There are inexpensive ways of boosting immune systems with supplements, such as zinc, vitimans C and D3, …
globalresearch.ca/covid-not-threat/57303…

How Should Former Presidents Behave?
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-24
There is something disconcerting about watching former United States President Barack Obama being interviewed on French television to market his new book A Promised Land. Already the author of several best-sellers — publishing about one’s life seems to be a prerequisite for presidential candidates — Obama was all the literary figure during the interview on…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/24/how-should-f…

Maternal Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Infants
van den Akker CP, Onland W, van Kaam AH. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
To the Editor In the Maternal Omega-3 Supplementation to Reduce Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Very Preterm Infants (MOBYDIck) trial, Dr Marc and colleagues reported no difference in bronchopulmonary dysplasia–free survival but higher rates for bronchopulmonary dysplasia in premature infants whose breastfeeding mothers received docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation vs placebo. A similar increase in rates for bronchopulmonary dysplasia also was reported in the N3RO trial, in which DHA supplementation or placebo was directly administered to premature infants. We would like to suggest a pathophysiological…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Nearly seven million German adults are heavily indebted
wsws.org | 2020-11-24
In Germany, almost one in 10 adults cannot make ends meet.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/24/cred…

Aid for American Indian, Alaska Native Individuals Who Want to Quit Smoking
Rubin R. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
The Indian Health Service (IHS) recently launched SmokefreeTXT, a mobile messaging tool to help American Indian and Alaska Native individuals quit smoking.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

What If They Called An Election And Nothing Changed In The War State?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-24
In this mystifying moment,…
popularresistance.org/what-if-they-calle…

Denver governor waters down Elijah McClain investigation, protesters continue to demand justice
Jade Crosbie | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-24
The movement’s demands are clear, “Indict, convict, send those killer cops to jail; the whole damn system is guilty as hell!”
liberationnews.org/denver-governor-water…

AEOI required to design 40 MW heavy water reactor
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Spokesman said that AEOI will be required to design a heavy water reactor.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166298/AEOI-require…

China Lifts all Remaining Poverty-stricken Counties out of Absolute Poverty
CGTN | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-24
Southwest China’s Guizhou Province says it has eliminated absolute poverty in its last nine impoverished counties, meaning there are no more counties listed as impoverished in the whole of China.
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/china-lifts-a…

VIDEO: Israeli aircraft crashes in southern occupied lands
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Two were killed after an Israeli aircraft crashed near Beersheba in the southern parts of the occupied Palestinian lands on Tuesday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166292/VIDEO-Israel…

Covid Is Not The Threat
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-11-24
Covid is a real virus. It is a threat to a small minority of the population–primarily people with poor immune systems and comorbidities. | There are inexpensive ways of boosting immune systems with supplements, such as zinc, vitimans C and D3, Beta Glucan, and NAC. But public health officials have not educated the public about the value of supplements in the Covid battle. The reason is that so-called public health officials are shills for Big Pharma’s profits, and Big Pharma regards good immune systems as a hindrence to profits. | There are also two effective, safe, and inexpensive cures for Covid. One is t…
thealtworld.com/paul_craig_roberts/covid…

Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future
Zack Graham | thenation.com | 2020-11-24
Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future…
thenation.com/article/culture/diane-cook…

How Joe Biden plans to make the American empire great again
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-24
Behind his rhetoric, Joe Biden will seek nothing less than global supremacy, escalating a new and even more dangerous arms race that risks the destruction of humanity, what he calls “decency” and “normalcy.”
mronline.org/2020/11/24/how-joe-biden-pl…

If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
Chris Wright | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-24
At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides some perspective. Goldfield argues that the old question “Why no socialism in the U.S.?” reduces to “Why no liberalism …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/if-unions-had…

Carlos Barrientos: There is rage on the streets of Guatemala
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-24
What brought over 500,000 people to the streets in Guatemala on Saturday, and why are people not leaving the streets after the controversial budget was suspended?
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/24/carlos-ba…

Two days ahead of historic strike, Indian trade unionists and farmers’ leaders arrested
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-24
Organizers of the historic general strike said the arrest of 31 leaders of trade unions and farmers’ movements in the State of Haryana would not dampen the protests. Over 200 million workers and hundreds of thousands of farmers will take part in the protest…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/24/two-days-…

Postal union leaders: Pandemic-driven mail decline emphasizes need for USPS aid
PAI | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-24
WASHINGTON (PAI)–The decline in money-making first-class mail, as businesses closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, emphasizes–again–the need for federal aid to keep…
peoplesworld.org/article/postal-union-le…

Iran to be able to mass-produce corona vaccine: Pres. Rouhani
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Islamic Republic of Iran will be able to mass-produce coronavirus, COVID-19, vaccines.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166311/Iran-to-be-a…

‘Save public housing!’ in San Antonio
Shelley Ettinger | workers.org | 2020-11-24
Scores of public housing residents and their supporters gathered outside the San Antonio Housing Authority’s so-called “housing assistance office” Nov. 21 to protest SAHA’s plan to demolish the historic Alazán Courts. Alazán is the city’s oldest and biggest public housing project, located in the historic center of the city’s Latinx, . . . | Continue reading ‘Save public housing!’ in San Antonio at Workers.org…
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Fecal Transplant for Clostridioides difficile Effective in Practice
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
A single fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) cured nearly all patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in a study published in Gastroenterology.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

FAO, WHO warn on risks of antimicrobial resistance
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — FAO and WHO warned over the risks of Antimicrobial Resistance and urged countries to prioritize infection prevention.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166305/FAO-WHO-warn…

Ecology and Medicine
jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
“All life is controlled by two great forces, heredity and environment, and ecology is the science dealing with the environment.” Ecology has generally been considered as the special concern of botanists and zoologists; at least they have been the ones who have most used the term as applying to a distinct department of their sciences; but obviously, from the definition, it is related to every science that touches life. Physicians have always recognized environment as of fundamental importance in all problems of medicine, and hence have unconsciously been ecologists, much like the man who, on taking up in his later…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

The Consequences Of Ethiopia’s Civil Conflict Will Be Acute
oneworld.press | 2020-11-24
The most intense phase of Ethiopia’s several-week-long civil conflict appears to be drawing to a close after the country’s national defense forces gave an ultimatum to Tigrayan rebels in the restive region’s capital to surrender or face utter destruction, but the consequences of this conflict will likely linger for long after the war formally concludes considering just how significant of an event this has been for the country.
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Commentary — Active forces decide political struggles ‚àí battling #45
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-11-24
If the political struggle were determined simply by adding up potential forces, #45 would be meeting now with Joe Biden, and the two would be preparing the next capitalist administration of the U.S. government. Celebrations in Atlanta’s streets over Trump’s defeat, Nov. 7. Have no illusions. Both Republicans and Democrats . . . | Continue reading Commentary — Active forces decide political struggles ‚àí battling #45 at Workers.org…
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Here are 7 dreamy lo-fi tracks to soothe your brain and make you productive
Ashlie D. Stevens | salon.com | 2020-11-24
From an experimental Japanese Breakfast track to music from one of the “godfathers of lo-fi,” we have you covered…
salon.com/2020/11/24/lo-fi-music-songs-p…

Confrontation Versus Trade
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-24
Around the world there is movement to improve levels of trade and to ease formalities in order to make multilateral commerce simpler, less costly and beneficial to all participants. Naturally, individual countries want to protect their particular specialities while continuing to profit from their attraction (think French wine and Scotch whisky, for example), but negotiations can solve such problems, and it is apparent that more and more countries are prepared to engage in dialogue rather than flouncing away from compromise. | Except, most notably, the US and Britain which seem to consider that concession in negot…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/24/co…

Oppose DEA surveillance plan!
Princess Harmony | workers.org | 2020-11-24
The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking more control and surveillance in the lives of people who use opioids, particularly people who use the medications buprenorphine (Suboxone, Subutex, Sublocade, Bunavail, or Zubsolv) and methadone (Diskets, Methadose). The DEA’s mission in this regard is, on paper, to prevent diversion — the sharing . . . | Continue reading Oppose DEA surveillance plan! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/11/52635/?utm_source=rs…

Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to be enforceable
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) – Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced that Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has reached quorum required to be enforceable i.e. it was approved by 50 countries and will be enforceable after 90 days as of Jan. 22.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166309/Treaty-on-Pr…

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 57 years ago
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-11-24
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 57 years ago. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) spent his last night alive at the Texas Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas. When morning came there was a light rain falling on Ft. Worth as the JFK entourage, including JFK’s wife Jackie, prepared to take a thirteen minute flight to Dallas for a limo ride through the city. It proved to be a very fateful day!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/22/1883862…

Car bomb explodes in al-Baba district , NE Aleppo
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Syrian sources reported that a car bomb had exploded in the city of Al-Bab, northeast of Aleppo in northern Syria but they did not mention the details.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166290/Car-bomb-exp…

Netanyahu in Saudi Arabia
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-11-24
The Arab-Israeli normalisation fad will not last long. And the regimes involved will live to regret it. | With all the Israeli media confirming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday for talks with Crown Prince Muhammad Bin-Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin-Farhan’s awkward denial that any such meeting took place was unconvincing in the extreme. | True, Netanyahu’s office refused to confirm or deny the gathering held at the complex of royal palaces in north-eastern Saudi Arabia at the site of the planned ‘mega-city’ of Neom. It su…
thealtworld.com/abdel_bari_atwan/netanya…

Top Campaign Spenders Won 88 Percent of 2020 Races
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-24
As it has for the past two decades, money performed well this election cycle, helping candidates from both sides of the aisle win. Across the board, 88 percent of congressional races were won by the candidate who spent the most. | Historically, this trend is stronger in the House than the Senate and 2020 was no exception. This year, the top-spending House candidate won 89.2 percent of the time. In the Senate, the top-spender wo…
truthout.org/articles/top-campaign-spend…

Don’t bail out Viva Energy
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-24
Sue Bull reports on oil refinery Viva Energy’s new plans for gas and a public bail-out.
greenleft.org.au/content/dont-bail-out-v…

Pediatric Magnet Ingestions After Federal Rule Changes, 2009-2019
Flaherty MR, Buchmiller T, Vangel M, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
This study describes trends in emergency department visits for ingestions by children of small neodymium magnets between 2009 and 2019, before, during, and after a 2014 Consumer Product Safety Commission rule restricting their sales.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Neighbors Explain What Protests Against Systemic Racism Mean To Them
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-24
Demonstrators took to the D.C. streets in late May, protesting police brutality and the systemic racism Black people face. It was part of a larger movement inspired by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but Floyd wasn’t the only name protesters chanted. They called for justice for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and, more locally, Marqueese Alston, D’Quan Young, and others. In September, a new name was added to the list: Deon Kay. | The demonstrations have taken place against the backdrop of a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted Black and Latino Americans, including in D.C.
popularresistance.org/neighbors-explain-…

Surprise! America is getting another psycho for Secretary Of State
Caitlin A. Johnstone | mronline.org | 2020-11-24
Did you know the U.S. Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War?>…
mronline.org/2020/11/24/surprise-america…

Saturday 12/5: The Covid Crisis: The Response in France (Online)
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-11-24
Online meeting, see website for details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/22/1883862…

Cantharidin Drug-Device Clears Molluscum Contagiosum Lesions
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
A drug-device containing the topical vesicant cantharidin safely and effectively treated molluscum contagiosum in 2 identical phase 3 multicenter US trials published in JAMA Dermatology. The common viral skin infection can last for years and has no approved treatment.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-11-24
Health care workers in Argentina, hospital workers in Chile along with medical staff in Uruguay and Paraguay have conducted strikes and protests over inadequate government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/24/wkrs…

Keep Calm And Just Die
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-24
The British government has ordered schools in England not to use resources and materials from organizations that have expressed any desire to end capitalism. There are several different ways one can think about this, but I believe the best may be to envision a government ordering its teachers to never inform someone on fire that they may want to stop, drop and roll. And maybe also instructing professors to hide all the water. | Look, I know this world’s crazy. I know things are getting out of hand. It takes a lot to surprise me these days, and yet I am floored that the government in England is forbidding anti-cap…
popularresistance.org/keep-calm-and-just…

Interview with Kevin Alexander Gray: ‘It’s Not a Sprint, It’s a Marathon’
Jan Miyasaki | progressive.org | 2020-11-24
Kevin Alexander Gray on the importance of organizing between elections.
progressive.org/magazine/interview-kevin…

Study Aims to Identify Drugs That Could Be Repurposed for COVID-19
Rubin R. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) recently launched a study to determine whether drugs that are already approved or in the late stage of clinical development might merit testing in larger clinical trials as a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) treatment.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Persecution of political prisoners and activists intensifies in Egypt
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-24
Imprisoned human rights activist Gasser Abdel-Razek has been subjected to cruel treatment in prison, claimed his lawyers. Meanwhile, on Monday, a criminal court in Cairo designated 28 Egyptians, including prominent activists, as terrorists…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/24/persecuti…

South Africa’s constitutional Court protects domestic workers
Musawenkosi Cabe | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-24
“It’s unbelievable. We feel like flying, we are so happy. I nearly broke into song inside [the Constitutional Court], breaking the law…” These were the words of 77-year-old Eunice Dhladhla, a domestic workers’ union organizer, after the court ended years of unfair exclusion and discrimination against domestic workers. | Twenty-six years into democracy, and still domestic workers could not claim compensation for contracting a disease, being injured or disabled, or even dying while at work. The Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Disease Act expressly excluded domestic workers from the class of workers who…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/24/south-afr…

Iraq: Continued international support vital amid ‘multiple storms’
news.un.org | 2020-11-24
As authorities in Iraq continue to operate “in the eye of multiple storms”, international support remains essential for resolving ongoing political, security, economic and social crises, as well as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Security Council heard on Tuesday.
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“Ouch,” the Unkindest Cuts of All
Raouf Halaby | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-24
During the years of my Jerusalem childhood I was raised in the Antiochian Orthodox tradition. My brothers and I served as altar boys in the St. Simeon’s Qatamoun Orthodox Church, a church we attended until the harassment, harangue, and stone throwing by interloping male Jewish children and adults became life-threatening. Eventually we’d attend St. Andrews…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/24/ouch-the-unk…

Unleash a Desert River and Its Wisdom
Jen Pelz | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-24
As the global pandemic rages, I am set adrift without connection to my home anchor. This charmed place with the monochromatic desert landscapes and auburn central river are but a distant memory. I breathe in the thirsty air and watch a pair of coyotes skulk through the urban refuge in my hometown. The geese snub…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/24/unleash-a-de…

Protect civilians uphold human rights, UN tells warring parties in Ethiopia
news.un.org | 2020-11-24
The UN’s top human rights official has called on the parties to the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region to give “clear and unambiguous orders” to their forces not to target civilians, and protect them from assault.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/11/1…

Hand Hygiene Gaps Identified
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
Hand washing or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer after touching shopping carts, gas pumps, automated teller machines, and other frequently touched surfaces is a key strategy the CDC recommends to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Yet a pair of surveys in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found serious gaps in hand hygiene practices by race, age, and sex.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Turkey Khashoggi trial: Journalist felt threatened by MBS’s allies, court hears
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-24
Turkey Khashoggi trial: Journalist felt threatened by MBS’s allies, court hears | A hearing of the Istanbul-based trial into the Saudi journalist’s murder hears testimony of Khashoggi talking about high-level threats years before his death | MEE and agencies | Tue, 11/24/2020 – 12: 03 | Friends of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi attend an event marking the second-year anniversary of his assassinati…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/khashoggi-sau…

Argentina: Defense, Health Ministries Ready for Vaccination
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-24
Argentina’s ministries of defense and health are preparing for a large-scale vaccination campaign against the new coronavirus by planning the vaccines’ cold-storage delivery and distribution. | RELATED: | teleSUR Celebrates Its Return to Digital Television in Argentina | “We have been working with the Ministry of Health for a month. First the ministers had a meeting, and now our teams are working together, coordinating almost daily,” Defense Minister Agustin Rossi said. | To…
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Poor People’s Campaign mourns COVID dead, demands immediate help for workers
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-24
WASHINGTON–Demanding justice for the living and remembering those killed by the coronavirus, car caravans organized by the New Poor People’s Campaign descended Nov. 23 on Washington, D.C., and 25 state capitals to demand further financial and medical relief from top government officials in the nation’s fight against that modern-day plague. “In their memory, we must …
peoplesworld.org/article/poor-peoples-ca…

‘Deplorable’ killing of Afro-Brazilian man shows need to address racism, discrimination
news.un.org | 2020-11-24
The killing of an Afro-Brazilian man, and the widespread outrage it has sparked, underscores the urgent need for the Government to tackle racism and racial discrimination in South America’s largest country, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/11/1…

Selected films to be displayed online in Nama Film Platform
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Several selected films of the second round of 16th Resistance International Film Festival will be displayed online in Nama Film Platform on the 4rd day of the event.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166285/Selected-fil…

Tuesday 11/24: Mission Creek real estate and the mystery of the divine
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-11-24
ZOOM: | zoom.us/j/94388878587?pwd=RFdxQUdqcVlqSG……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/23/1883863…

‘Qatar having strong will to expand economic ties with Iran’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Iranian energy minister said the Qatari government has a strong will to develop economic relations with Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166304/Qatar-having…

The Teachings of America
Chelli Stanley | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-24
One teaching taught us that to be anti-war is to be a hateful person, betrayer of your country, deranged. But that’s a strange teaching. There’s teachings that say all soldiers are automatically heroes, and as a result, war is holy. But they didn’t really make sense. There’s been indirect teachings for centuries that equality is…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/24/the-teaching…

Egypt urged to release two women whose pretrial detention has expired
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-24
Egypt urged to release two women whose pretrial detention has expired | On 21 November, the two-year pretrial detention limit of Hoda Abdelmonem and Aisha al-Shater ended, making their continued imprisonment unlawful, says rights group | MEE correspondent | Tue, 11/24/2020 – 13: 40 | Abdelmonem (L) and Shater were held in November 2018 as part of a wave of detentions which targeted nearly 40 human rights w…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-women-p…

Turkey: Erdogan ally Bulent Arinc resigns in dispute over reforms
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-24
Turkey: Erdogan ally Bulent Arinc resigns in dispute over reforms | Arinc left the Turkish president’s high advisory council after he called for the release of two high-profile prisoners | Ragip Soylu | Tue, 11/24/2020 – 15: 14 | Then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks to his then-deputy Bulent Arinc during a debate at the parliament in Ankara on 25 February 2010 (AFP) | One of the leading associ…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-erdoga…

HRW calls on Saudi Arabia to reveal status of detained Uighurs
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-24
HRW calls on Saudi Arabia to reveal status of detained Uighurs | Aimadoula Waili and Nurmemet Rozi were arrested last week by Saudi authorities and risk deportation and torture in China, rights group says | MEE staff | Tue, 11/24/2020 – 20: 05 | Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi authorities to ‘immediately disclose’ the status of Hemdullah Abduweli and Nurmemet Rozi (AFP/File photo) | Human Rights Watch has called on…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/hrw-calls-sau…

More New Wearable COVID Tech that Constantly Tracks and Zaps People
B.N. Frank | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-24
There seems to be no shortage of invasive technology being invented, deployed, and worn in an effort to detect COVID-19 symptoms and/or track people’s whereabouts and personal encounters. Devices are being worn by American military personnel, American employees (see …
globalresearch.ca/more-new-wearable-covi…

Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-24
First published in October 2020 | “A group is suing Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Bruce Dart, saying the city’s mask mandate is harmful to healthy people,” reports Activist Post. The group includes business owners …
globalresearch.ca/medical-doctor-warns-b…

Immigration Is the Story of Our Families
Joseph Hayden | progressive.org | 2020-11-24
If you go back far enough, all of us are from someplace else. We all start as outsiders hoping to belong.
progressive.org/op-eds/immigration-story…

Should Michèle Flournoy be Secretary of Defense?
Winslow Wheeler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-24
President-elect Joe Biden faces monumental challenges, left to him by an exceptionally dysfunctional administration now heading for the exits–despite temper tantrums en route. Among those challenges, one hardly mentioned during the campaign is stemming the runaway appetite in the Pentagon, …
globalresearch.ca/should-michele-flourno…

French app users sue Muslim Pro over alleged data sharing with US military
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-24
French app users sue Muslim Pro over alleged data sharing with US military | Lawsuit accuses Muslim Pro of data protection offences, abuse of trust, endangering other people’s lives, and conspiracy to commit murder | MEE staff | Tue, 11/24/2020 – 15: 50 | Muslim Pro told MEE that it denies selling its data to US military and that it was ending all sharing of its data with companies (Facebook/Muslim Pro) | French users of…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-pro-fr…

Effect of Nebulized Magnesium vs Placebo Added to Albuterol Among Children With Refractory Acute Asthma
Schuh S, Sweeney J, Rumantir M, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
This randomized trial compares the effect of nebulized magnesium vs placebo added to albuterol on hospitalization at 24 hours of children with acute asthma in respiratory distress after initial therapy in Canadian pediatric emergency departments (EDs).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Zoom cancels meetings at several universities on Zoom censorship
wsws.org | 2020-11-24
Zoom’s dramatic escalation of censorship has major implications as schools, academic institutions as well as political organizations have become increasingly dependent on the platform to conduct classes, conferences and meetings.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/24/zoom…

Sunday 12/6: Not My Dirty Money: Youth Power in Divestment to Fight the Climate Emergency
Not My Dirty Money Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-11-24
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/24/1883864…

Thailand: Hiding Sedition Behind “Free Speech”
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2020-11-24
As the US has done around the globe, it is backing groups engaged in propaganda and disinformation aimed at undermining Thailand’s leadership including its 700+ year old monarchy, an institution’s whose head — the King of Thailand — also serves as the nation’s head of state. | US-funded fronts posing as “human rights” advocates claim this propaganda and disinformation — amounting to defamation under the laws of any other nation on Earth — is simply “free speech.” | I explain how this is absolutely wrong and how US-funded sedition in Thailand is merely hiding behind “free speech,” not “fight…
thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/thail…

USPSTF Report: Behavioral Counseling to Promote Healthy Lifestyle in Adults With CV Risk Factors
O’Connor EA, Evans CV, Rushkin MC, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
This systematic review to support the 2020 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on behavioral counseling to promote healthy diet and physical activity for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of behavioral counseling to promote healthy diet and physical activity for CVD prevention in adults with cardiovascular risk factors.
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The GOP: Grotesque, Outrageous Putschists
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-11-24
The GOP: Grotesque, Outrageous Putschists…
thenation.com/article/politics/the-gop-g…

Justice means abolition, not more jails
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-11-24
The U.S. spends billions incarcerating the largest prison population in the world, but prison abolition still sounds too abstract for many people to think about. Here’s what it would actually look like.
therealnews.com/jails-arent-justice-abol…

Jeff Riedel, photographer and fighter for socialism: 1968-2020
wsws.org | 2020-11-24
An immensely gifted artist, Jeff Riedel’s photographic work combined exceptional technical skill with social insight.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/24/jeff…

All’Onu l’Italia si astiene sul nazismo
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-24
Il Terzo Comitato delle Nazioni Unite — incaricato delle questioni sociali, umanitarie e culturali — ha approvato il 18 novembre la Risoluzione ´Combattere la glorificazione del nazismo, neonazismo e altre pratiche che contribuiscono ad alimentare le contemporanee forme di razzismo, …
globalresearch.ca/allonu-litalia-si-asti…

A month after being hired at suburban Detroit Fiat Chrysler plant, worker dies from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-11-24
Stevie Brown, a temporary part-time worker at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant, is the latest victim of the murderous policy of keeping the factories open even as they have become a major vector in the spread of the deadly disease.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/24/wtap…

Law Enforcement Across the U.S. Overwhelmingly Refusing to Enforce COVID Orders — Will the Public Follow?
Brian Shilhavy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-24
As literally millions of people take to the streets all across Europe to protest new COVID orders as many face a second “lockdown” this year in the name of COVID, there is growing evidence that as states in the U.S. …
globalresearch.ca/law-enforcement-across…

Second round of UN-sponsored peace talks between Libyan factions kicks off
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-24
The talks, which are being held virtually, aim to identify criteria for selecting authorities to administer the country till the elections. In the first round of talks, it was decided that elections will be held in December 2021…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/24/second-ro…

Possible Trump Coup & Vermont AFL-CIO Call For General Strike with Vermont Fed Pres
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-11-24
The Vermont AFL-CIO has voted to possibly calling a general strike to stop any coup by Trump…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/22/1883862…

World leading experts in health, science and economics discuss post-Covid world
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-24
The world’s leading experts in health, science and economics discussed…
imperial.ac.uk/news/209353/world-leading-experts-health-science-economics

At Trump’s final bizarre turkey pardon, his ongoing refusal to concede was the elephant in the room
Ashlie D. Stevens | salon.com | 2020-11-24
The president talked up the Dow and made a racist swipe at the “China virus,” but no mention of the transition…
salon.com/2020/11/24/at-trumps-final-biz…

What did the PA gain for resuming security coordination with Israel?
Shatha Hammad | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-24
What did the PA gain for resuming security coordination with Israel? | Activists say they expect the Palestinian Authority to crackdown on dissent, as Palestinians criticise a return to the coordination policy | Shatha Hammad | Tue, 11/24/2020 – 14: 37 | Palestinian Authority security forces stop vehicles at a checkpoint in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on 2 July 2020, after authorities reimposed a Covid-19 loc…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palest…

US Navy defends entering Russian waters by blasting Moscow’s ‘EXCESSIVE’ maritime claims
rt.com | 2020-11-24
The US Navy has called Russia’s maritime claims “excessive” and described an alleged incursion by one of its ships, the USS John S. McCain, into Russian waters as a routine “Freedom of Navigation Operation.” | The Russian Ministry of Defense stated on Tuesday that the USS McCain sailed more than two kilometers into Russian waters off the coast of the Russian Far Eastern capital, Vladivostok, that morning. According to Moscow, the USS McCain was warned away by the Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov, whose…
rt.com/russia/507713-us-navy-mccain-incu…

US providing ISIL with weapons in Iraq
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — An Iraqi security expert stressed that ISIL terrorist elements receive weapons from foreign forces inside Iraq.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166313/US-providing…

Licensed to Kill
Thomas Stephens | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-24
The name’s Capitalism. Racial Capitalism. Like a totalized 21st century social system, like a smoother corporate bureaucratic James Bond. Racial capitalism: naming systemic inequalities exposed by post-George Floyd BLM resistance, and revealed by the Covid pandemic’s disparate racial impacts. Racial capitalism now is settler-colonialist neoliberalism, with the genocide accelerated more up front and center in…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/24/licensed-to-…

VIDEO: Car bomb blasts in Syria’s Afrin
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — A car bomb was exploded in Syrian town of Afrin on Tue.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166310/VIDEO-Car-bo…

Human rights organizations demand release of jailed student activists in Myanmar
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-24
Several activists and students, many from the All Burma Federation of Student Unions, have been recently arrested by the Myanmar authorities for protesting against human rights violations in the country’s Rakhine and Chin States…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/24/human-rig…

‘Stop the threat’: Saudi Arabia blames Houthis for Aramco missile attack in letter to UN Security Council
rt.com | 2020-11-24
Saudi Arabia has told the United Nations Security Council that Yemen’s Houthi militia is behind the missile attack at a petroleum facility in Jeddah owned by its Aramco oil company on Monday, in a formal letter seen by reporters. | A letter penned by Saudi UN ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi called on the 15-member body to “stop the threat” that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels pose to energy security, Yemeni politics, and regional stability, Reuters reported on Tuesday. | “It has been identified that the Houthis militia backed by Iran is responsible for the terrorist attack,” Al-Mouallimi said in the letter, rep…
rt.com/news/507703-saudi-aramco-strike-h…

Jogja-NETPAC Asian FilmFest. to host 6 Iranian titles
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-24
TEHRAN, Nov. 24 (MNA) — Six Iranian titles, namely ‘The Warden’, ‘Badger’, ‘Just 6.5’, ‘Gabriel’, ‘Local Anesthesia’, and ‘Najibeh’ will take part at the 15th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival in Indonesia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166284/Jogja-NETPAC…

Active Surveillance Testing to Prevent Staph Spread in NICUs
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-24
Personnel in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) should conduct active surveillance testing for Staphylococcus aureus colonization of neonates to prevent the spread of infection during outbreaks or when incidence increases, according to a new CDC guideline.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

CIA Partners with Google, Amazon and IBM in Latest Big Tech Procurement Drive
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-11-23
The military industrial complex is returning to its roots as the CIA turns to big tech to maintain control and rebuild the war economy.
mintpressnews.com/cia-big-tech-cloud-com…

CIA’s New Big Tech Procurement Drive Brings War Economy Back to its Roots
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-11-23
The military industrial complex is returning to its roots as the CIA turns to big tech to maintain control and rebuild the war economy.
mintpressnews.com/cia-big-tech-cloud-com…

A Man-Child in A Promised Land
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-23
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recently conducted a long and obsequious interview with Barack Obama. The interview was occasioned by the apparent defeat of Obama’s fascist successor Donald Trump and by the recent release of the first volume of Obama’s much-awaited presidential memoir A Promised Land — Obama’s third book about Obama, soon to be…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/23/a-man-child-…

Afghan Nat. Security Council urges UN sanctions on Taliban
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-23
TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) — The Afghan government has once again called on the UN Security Council to impose tough sanctions on the Taliban.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166230/Afghan-Nat-S…

The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-23
“Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent.” So thundered Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, Muhsin Siddiquey after consulting figures from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showing that members of the G20 have exported over $17 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Kingdom entered the conflict in Yemen. “The world’s wealthiest nations cannot continue to put profits above the Yemeni people.”
counterpunch.org/2020/11/23/the-yemen-ci…

The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-23
“Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent.” So thundered Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, Muhsin Siddiquey after consulting figures from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showing that members of the G20 have exported over $17 billion worth…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/23/the-yemen-ci…

Venezuelan Elections: Maduro Requests Anti-Corruption ‘Help’ as APR Blasts ‘Censorship’
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-11-23
Centre-right and right-wing parties have also been campaigning hard for the December 6 contest.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15056

Venezuela: Regional Electoral Boards Start Election Training
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-23
Venezuela’s electoral authorities announced that the training of Regional Electoral Boards (REB) will be carried out from November 23rd until November 27th, as set out in the electoral calendar ahead of the parliamentary elections to take place on December 6. | RELATED: | Venezuela: President Maduro Claims Theft of Funds for Migrant Support | The training will be conducted by the National Electoral Board (NEB) and the National Office of Subaltern Electoral Organizations…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Region…

A People’s Vaccine? Drugmakers Set to Profit from COVID Vaccines Made with Publicly Funded Research
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-11-23
With the world pinning its hopes on a successful coronavirus vaccine to curb the pandemic, corporate watchdogs say much of the research and development of the medicines rely on publicly funded research. “The investment in these vaccines, as for most drugs, has really been underwritten by the taxpayer, by the government,” says Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.
www.democracynow.org/2020/11/23/coronavi…

Tens of thousands made homeless in UK as winter looms and temperatures plummet
wsws.org | 2020-11-23
Research conducted by the Guardian among both UK-born and migrant rough sleepers found that many had been made homeless in recent months after losing their jobs in the service sector–especially restaurants, clubs and event security.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/23/home…

Successful Not-for-Profit Oxford COVID Vaccine Threatens Big Pharma Profit Logic
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-11-23
“The Oxford vaccine is… striking, since the point was to pay researchers, but not to rely on patent monopolies to generate large profits.” — Economist Dean Baker | MPN– The world is abuzz today after a team of medical researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom announced that advanced trials of their experimental coronavirus vaccine were a roaring success, with the vaccine possibly being rolled out before Christmas. Testing was done on 24,000 volunteers in t…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/successful-…

Successful Not-for-Profit Oxford COVID Vaccine Threatens Big Pharma Profit Logic
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-11-23
“The Oxford vaccine is… striking, since the point was to pay researchers, but not to rely on patent monopolies to generate large profits.” – Economist Dean Baker…
mintpressnews.com/successful-not-for-pro…

Did the BBC use a Nour Al Din Zinki supporter as researcher for Mayday series?
Vanessa Beeley | thealtworld.com | 2020-11-23
Abd AlKader Habak was a researcher on the BBC series Mayday, produced by Chloe Hadjimatheou. While western audiences were swamped by images of him supposedly saving a child from the Rashideen massacre in April 2017, survivor testimonies that I gathered placed him prior to the planned suicide attack, chatting amicably with the armed groups led by Nusra Front or Al Qaeda in Syria. | Can Habak or @chloehadj answer these questions? | Hi would you please let me know what happened to this child. Where was the child taken for treatment? Was the child return…
thealtworld.com/vanessa_beeley/did-the-b…

Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-11-23
Blinken is a liberal interventionist who has supported all of the most disgusting acts of US mass military slaughter this millennium, including the Iraq invasion. | Did you know the US Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War? It would be a much more honest label today for a military which virtually never operates in any way that could be described as defensive, with its operations focusing far outside of the nation’s borders against targets who pose no threat whatsoever to ordinary Americans. An even more suitable na…
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/surpris…

UK Government Proposes “Freedom Passes” to Get ‘Safe’ People Back to Work
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-23
The rollout of COVID-19 immunity certificates across the UK could become a reality in 2021. A draft of the scheme, one where people who have contracted the virus and have recovered, or have naturally develop antibodies to fight the virus, …
globalresearch.ca/uk-government-proposes…

Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Pentagon in Your Hands?
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-11-23
War profiteers on the march…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/23/1883863…